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Floyd Mayweather Jr. celebrates with his cornermen after retaining the WBC welterweight title belt with a unanimous decision over Robert Guerrero on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

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Enough with the imitator, Manny Pacquiao seemed to say in his convincing victory over Adrien Broner on Saturday night at MGM Grand.
Bring on the real thing: Floyd Mayweather Jr.
“Tell him to come back in the ring and we will fight,” Pacquiao said in the...

The last time Conor McGregor was in a UFC cage, he was merely the biggest star in the history of mixed martial arts.
In the 23 months since, the loquacious Irishman has become exponentially richer and more famous. With his boxing loss to Floyd Mayweather...

Floyd Mayweather Jr. says he's coming out of retirement again to fight Manny Pacquiao for a second time in December.
Mayweather posted a video on Instagram early Saturday that showed him and Pacquiao together, reportedly in Japan, jawing at each other...

Growing up at 52nd and Carpenter on the South Side regularly exposed Chris Ousley to the dangers of the streets, but the promising Chicago boxer found the most powerful examples under his own roof.
Ousley’s father, Anthony, spent most of the boy’s...

Clay Guida and Bobby Green likely won't get anywhere near top billing at UFC 225, but they probably won't lack for entertainment value either.
Guida, 36, who was born in Round Lake and grew up in Johnsburg, has called out Conor McGregor — sometimes in...

Conor McGregor's run as UFC lightweight champion is set to end.
The long-expected move that McGregor would lose his 155-belt was officially announced by UFC President Dana White at a press conference for Saturday's pay-per-view card at Barclays Center....

CM Punk versus Floyd Mayweather Jr. -- the very notion sounds preposterous. Until it starts making sense.
Punk, a former WWE wrestler (born Phil Brooks in Chicago), got his hat handed to him in his UFC debut against Mickey Gall in September 2016, but...

Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett accused Las Vegas police on Wednesday of racially motivated excessive force, saying he was threatened at gunpoint and handcuffed following a report of gunshots at an after-hours club at a casino-hotel.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. put on a show in the last fight of his spectacular career.
Conor McGregor didn't do so badly, either.
Mayweather figured out a 50th opponent Saturday night, letting McGregor have the early rounds before stalking him late and leaving...

Conor McGregor’s ability to visualize and realize the impossible has gotten him to this stage, a place where victory would elevate him to otherworldly status among sporting figures.
Unfortunately for McGregor, the stage is a boxing ring. And there,...

If enough people are willing to shell out $100 for the pay-per-view telecast, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor could earn nine figures each for the "spectacle" they're staging in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
Lisa McClellan, meanwhile, lives on a...

For all the novelty of their fight, Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather Jr. have relied on boxing's most durable means of promotion. Through words and behavior, they have concocted a racial rivalry in a climate ripe for exploiting it.
In press tours...

Even though his odds have plummeted since the fight was announced back in June, Floyd Mayweather still is a heavy, heavy favorite to beat MMA fighter Conor McGregor in their boxing match on Aug. 26, with the oddsmakers giving him somewhere around an 85...

We thought we already knew why Floyd Mayweather was coming out of retirement to fight Conor McGregor. He had stated that he would not do so for less than $100 million, and the UFC superstar provided the grabby name for just such a payday, while McGregor's...

It seems like every corner of the sports and celebrity world wants to weigh in on the Aug. 26 boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor, but the hyperbole is ratcheting up to absurd levels even by boxing standards.
While some on Team...

Floyd Mayweather Jr. will come out of retirement to meet UFC star Conor McGregor in an Aug. 26 boxing match that will feature two of the top-selling fighters in the world.
The two fighters both announced the fight Wednesday, after months of speculation...

Conor McGregor has come to an agreement with UFC that has moved a proposed fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. closer to reality.
UFC President Dana White said he reached a deal with McGregor , MMA's biggest star and lightweight champion, and will now...

Police are investigating a burglary reported last weekend at a Las Vegas home owned by retired boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Officer Danny Cordero said Wednesday that Mayweather employees reported the break-in early Monday at the luxury home...